Dec 8, 2010 · But my question is, when should I use html encode and when shouldn't I. For example, within a html table, I'm writing directly from the database to the inner HTML of a column. Without encoding this would be dangerous, I get that. What about when setting the value of a textbox. It seems to work without having to html encode the value.

Nov 28, 2009 · HTML encoding and URL encoding do fundamentally different things. If you HTML encode, for instance, 'hello world' and try to add it to a url, you will get an invalid url. Both are important, and should be used for different situations.

I'm sorry, but anti-XSS input filtering is seriously not at all a substitute for HTML-encoding plain text at the output-to-HTML stage. All anti-XSS tools are fragile, mangle valid input and incomplete: at best a sticking plaster for poorly-written apps with HTML-escaping issues and not a cure that actually addresses the problem. –

URI encoding is different than HTML encoding. URI encoding will encode < as %3C, not &lt; ...

Send off the HTML to a web service that creates the PDF. Somewhere in that mess, the non-breaking spaces from the HTML template (the &nbsp;s) are encoding as ISO-8859-1 so that they show up incorrectly as an "Â" character when viewing the document in a browser (FireFox). ActivePDF pukes on these non-UTF8 characters.

Jan 26, 2013 · I have a class library (in C#). I need to encode my data using the HtmlEncode method. This is easy to do from a web application. My question is, how do I use this method from a class library that is

May 5, 2015 · In HTML, you can write the greater than sign ">" as &gt; and the less than symbol "<" as &lt;. Is this encoding defined by the HTML encoding or some standard like ISO, UTF-xxx, BaseXXX...

Jun 22, 2015 · If you do: string -> htmlEncode -> xmlEncode -> xml when writing the xml data, then just make sure that you do: xml -> xmlDecode -> htmlDecode -> string when reading the xml data. -- the xml "encoding/decoding" part is done by XElement automatically.

URL encoding won't escape them, so there will be reserved HTML characters inside the href attribute, which violates the standard. HTML encoding will escape '<' and '>' characters and HTML will be valid, but after that there will be unexpected '&' characters in the URL (this is reserved character for URL, it's used as a delimiter of query string ...

Apr 4, 2011 · HTML hex character entity for U+000A Line Feed. This is a representation of Unicode Character 'LINE FEED (LF)' (U+000A) &#xa; is the HTML character entity's way of saying: give me the Unicode character at hexadecimal codepoint 0xA. And because hex 0xA is the same as decimal 10, here's another way of getting the same character: &#10;